nairrita * belonging or
consecrated to Nirriti, south-western, belonging to
the Rakshasas, a Rakshasa girl, the Rakshasa-king

Prabhava

Vichruta

Minamref (Coptic)

Vanity Sounds the Horn and Ignorance Unleashes the Hounds
Overconfidence, Rashness and Desire (from The Hunt of the Frail
Stag)c. 1495-1510. South Netherlandish. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York.

"Ruled by the Dragon's Tail. A sharp asterism belonging to the butcher caste
and favorable for punishment, torture, imprisonment, exorcism, mesmerism and
separation or union when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day
will be druggists, dealers in flowers and fruit, rich and fond of gardening.

With Moon here at birth native will be conceited, wealthy, luxurious,
kind-hearted, happy and resolute. Rules stables and the left side of the
body. "

Nakshatra
of Brihaspati * Brihaspati's
ever-expanding realm of inclusive doctrinal understanding can be
supplemented by dissolving Ketu, and Guru-Ketu combinations can reflect a
theoretically abstractive
pair. However the principled methods of Guru's outreach preaching are
typically incommensurable with the apparently aimless disorientation of
Ketu. These pairings may have a temporary shared spiritual agenda, but they
are typically not sustainable.

Nakshatra of
Zukra = Zukra is all about equal
matches, pleasures, and partnership. No-contact Ketu the
chidrakaraka is all about disconnection, amputation, splitting. This couple is not adversarial.
Rather, it finds no mutual point of contact. The Zukra partner seeks harmonious,
wealth-accruing unions whereas the Ketu partner seeks pilgrimage,
wandering, witnessing dispersion. Low potential for agreement.

Nakshatra of
Chandra *
Ketu and Chandra form an inherently uncomfortable union. Chandra stabilizes,
settles, cultivates, harvests, and nurtures. Ketu blows through Chandra's
settlements like a dust storm, desiccating the nurturing waters and
pulverizing ancestral roots. Chandra the Sustainer can withstand most of
Ketu's disconnective effects but even so, Chandra is wary of amputation,
decapitation, and root-destruction. This pairing is rare, and when it
occurs the Chandra partner may perceive No-Contact Ketu as a nuisance.

Nakshatra of
Surya
* Ketu and Surya often cannot recognize each other. Surya's brilliant
light overpowers Ketu. This pairing is exceptionally rare, and when
it occurs the Surya partner may perceive Ketu as insubstantial,
unintelligent, or disoriented.

Nakshatra of Budha *
Ketu and Budha work at cross-purposes. Budha repeats a
script of message delivery that depends on a logical mental process.
Ketu is speechless, off-script, non-sequitur, clueless, and
ungrammatical. If this pairing is required for some karmic reason,
logically argumentative Budha may express resentment toward Ketu's
proclivity toward wandering non-thought.

Instructional guidance is provided by emissaries from the civilizations of
Al-Shaula. Their purpose is to
disintegrate, disconnect, disperse, and deconstruct those
phenomena which have become obstacles to
greater understanding.

Fearless Deconstructivism

Mula gentlewomen are ready to sacrifice everything in an ongoing act of
complete and devastating spiritual
surrender. Those born
under auspice of nakshatrapathi Nirriti may feel intense
yearning for emptiness, evacuation, annihilation, and deconstruction of
the superficial personality which opens the gateway into utter rebirth..

Akasha-born feminine beings may find empowerment in acts of
purgative spiritual healing.
Often their gifts express in physical healing when the mechanism is
purging, profound cleansing, expulsion, or eradication. Purification
at the root is their specialty.

Themes of annihilation,
extreme chaos followed by absolute
peace, and fearless disregard of consequences may contextualize Mula's
terrestrial experience.
Applies also to
Chandra in Mula

Instructional guidance is provided by emissaries
from the civilizations of
Al-Shaula. Their purpose is to
disintegrate, disconnect, disperse, and deconstruct
those phenomena which have become
obstacles to
greater understanding.

Fearless Deconstructivism

Mula gentlemen are inspiring
in their fearlessness. Although apparently
tame personalities, Nirriti are emotionally comfortable with extreme
risk. Often they go enthusiastically
where angels fear to tread.

Mula has a surprising ability to convince others to
grant them power - sometimes, absolute power. Mula's
perception features a mix of ambivalence and apathy not only toward
others but toward oneself. Liberated from self-doubt, and disinterested in moral conventions,
those born under auspice of nakshatrapathi Alakmi preach their paradigm of belief without concern for
material consequences. Thus freed from worry, they can be guided
entirely by ideology with little-or-no pragmatic constraint.

Often
involved in religious or political indoctrination, Mula may
expound an eschatology of
annihilation.,
Unlimited destruction may be the preferred path toward full
purgative cycle of regeneration. Niritti may be associated with
shock and awe or scorched earth or eradication
campaigns that are aimed to destroy the root.

Having almost no fear of death, Mula engage in self-destructive behavior.
Patriarchal sponsors and patronage
may be essential to their success. Mula gentlemen are found in
the worlds of religious preaching, inspirational guidance, cults of
belief, ideological
indoctrination, radical military, politics, and
organized crime.

Themes of annihilation,
extreme chaos followed by absolute
peace , and fearless disregard of consequences may contextualize Mula's
terrestrial experience. Applies also to
Chandra in Mula

However. in daunting circumstances, Mula can inspire others with a curious delight in the hopelessness of the human condition.

Mula natives are found in all industries and roles. Mula
are often particularly attracted into
situations that contain
large-scale dissolution of focus, structural collapse or
widespread failure.

Mula are often intensely committed to a doctrine,
theory, or ideology which contradicts material
reality. This belief woven into its supporting paradigm tends to guide Mula's interpretation
of reality.

For example, a memorable Mula female from my files
was a deeply inspired elementary school teacher. She
taught in one of the most violent, drug-and-crime ridden
racial ghettos of the USA. Unlike many of her
fellow liberal-progressive colleagues who experienced tremendous
job stress and could not continue, this intrepid Mula
educator never "burned out".

She was a believer. A woman born into social
privilege, every school day she used her own salary to
buy breakfast foods for each of her 19 students. She
believed that they would succeed in life if she could
install a stronger foundation into their third-grade
experience, which she described as the most important
and high-potential year in the entire K-12 sequence.
After 35 years of pursuing this practice, she cannot point to a
single one of her former students who has graduated from
college.

Notably descriptive of Ketu-context thinking, she was
not interested in learning research-based behavioral
techniques for managing these largely learning-disabled
students. When she attended the mandatory annual
professional continuing education classes necessary to
maintain her teaching license, she reports that she (and
many of her colleagues) skipped class. They simply
signed-in to create a record of attendance that would
satisfy government licensing requirements, excused
themselves (Ketu = excuse) to the restroom, and went to a
bar or restaurant to relax for the duration of the
required professional skills trainings.

According to her, research-based skills training was
worthless because "they don't understand how to inspire
my kids". Most of her male students are dead or
incarcerated. She personally adopted three crack-babies,
raised them with every social privilege, paid for
tutors, dentists, and doctors, and kept looking for that
miracle result in which Mula deeply believes.
All three babies became convicted felons before age 25;
two are serving life sentences because their drug-fueled
crimes involved murder. Despite the heinous nature of
the crimes, she insists that her sons should not be held
accountable because of their crack-baby histories.

This Mula native is a master schoolteacher (Dhanuzya teaching) who has
sponsored innumerable younger teachers. She emphasizes
positive thinking. The only thing she hates is testing,
because she believes that test numbers defeat the
inspiration which is the real heart of learning (Budha numbers, Budha
adversarial to Guru).

End of career is a splendid Ketu story.

After decades of teaching, the district supervisor
(who was her friend) suddenly asked Mula-woman to accept
early retirement. Apparently there was video showing
mishandling of the students' annual state exams.
According to Mula, the video showed her seated at the
teacher's desk on "planning day" carefully and
systematically erasing her students' wrong test answers
and filling in the correct answers.

It is a beautiful example of the way of Mula folk.
First, Mula are distinguished by "disregard for
consequences". They follow the truth of their
theory-doctrine-ideology-credenda, unconvinced and unimpressed by
material reality. Secondly, Mula are rarely harmed by
this attitude of disregard, and often do quite well in
life. Actually this Mula profited by an early retirement
with full pension and benefits. With her three kids
safely in prison, she is free to enjoy many travel
holidays.

Ddespite working with a financially
desperate, chemically deranged, and often violent
population, Mula-woman was never physically harmed at
any time. She has remained cheerfully faithful to her
principles. She continues to preach her doctrine to
anyone who will listen.

Importantly, lagnesha Guru (belief) occupies Simha-9
supporting her buoyant optimism, while Budha (logic) is
heavily oppressed by Shani suggesting her ability to
ignore logical evidence while sustaining a long career
in heavily institutional conditions.

Surrender

Exemplifying a distinction between Rahu (whose fall
can be public and dramatic) and Ketu (abandonment,
severance or surrender) this Mula's fall from grace was
never disclosed to the public nor was she prosecuted due
to protections in her employment contract.

Shambala1939-1987 Tulku Chogyam Trungpa exemplifies the
unique characteristics of Mula. Born and educated
into a historic wisdom lineage, Trungpa became a
brilliant celebrity teacher who used "shock and awe"
to challenge the stagnant paradigm of conventional
thinking about dharma (reality). His pioneering
mission to eradicate (Mula vichruta root) a millenium of barnacle-like
cultural accruals stuck to the Vajrayana Buddhist
wisdom-teachings, so that its wisdom could penetrate the
western consciousness, would be adjudged successful.
But he also acted distinctively without regard for consequences toward
the limitations of the physical body, developed self-encouraged alcoholism,
and died of the drink.

Mula can express great genius through its eccentric sense of possibility; they are very good at thinking
out of the box and getting great insights from traveling around the world
(Dhanushya, the wealth-of-wisdom). Mula may travel
widely during Ketu mahadasha.

Open-minded and unencumbered by practical concerns
of consensual reality, Mula unhesitatingly takes on big projects based on their oddly
arranged paradigm of belief. On the one hand the Divine will guide (generous Guru) and on the other hand, nothing matters anyway (apathetic Ketu).

Mula the Galactic Root = direct route to center
of this universe, but often swayed by Others

One of the primary challenges faced by one born
into a Nakshatra of
Ketuva (Azvini,
Makha, or
Mula) is
that Ketu tends to provide a blank screen upon which
others may project their desires. It may be
beneficial to meditate upon one's authentic
preferences and secure one's choices by writing them
or speaking them. Without a conscious awareness of
the need to ascertain one's own true preferences,
the natural apathy of Ketu may lead the native into
inauthentic choices based on the will of more
ambitious, more opportunistic Others (Rahu).

less benevolent wealth-accruing human civilizations (Alaxmi) because Mula lacks both preparation and follow-through. Yet, complete openness to experience and lack of preconceptions opens the way to tremendous, cosmic-scale insights.

Mula's wisdom about human nature and its frailties
may be considerable at times, but insights are ephemeral (Ketu). Other
more materially grounded placements are necessary to preserve the
insights in memory -- e xempli gratia, a strong Budha for writing.

Unassisted, Mula tends to make the same mistakes over and over again.

Through good times and bad, Mula remains quite neutral - taking neither credit nor blame. It is in many ways a very spiritual placement, albeit a frustrating one in the world of normal human endeavor.

In advance of starting the project (or marriage or employment) Mula shows little inclination toward self-assessment, evaluation of existing skills or resources inventories, consideration of previous experience or track-record in similar pursuits. Typically, Mula considers previous experience or
skills training to be irrelevant to present challenges.

Amidst a project, Mula can inspire others with the seeming profundity of their faith in Providence and acts of unfettered courage.

Mula is well represented by the Tarot card"The Fool" which shows an open-minded fellow taking a big step right off the edge of a cliff.

There are indeed times in life when common sense (Shani) tells us to run but we must fight on anyway, and hope to live another day. In these desperate or irrational circumstances, Mula's foolish wisdom can offer a beacon shining hopefully in the darkest, most fearful night.

However Mula's bad reputation comes from Ketu. In the middle of a commitment, a battle, a job being done albeit with poor preparation and inadequate resources, Mula can switch from an icon of splendid risk to a suddenly disengaged traitor, abdicant, or coward.

Ketu = karaka for sudden disconnection. Mula has a tendency
to walk out in abandonment of a commitment or simply surrender without warning. Ketu is a wanderer, and Mula will wander off to another battle, another relationship, another job, another project.

If Mula contains Shani or Guru there may be more substance to
one 's behavior, and commitments may last longer with more common sense or a more philosophical less annihilating type of religious faith.

Mula displays a general tendency to bite off more than one can chew, overestimate one's human abilities, and in the face of overwhelming circumstances to simply withdraw (Ketu)

"Opposite" or"reverse" of movement; forbidding movement or forbidding repayment; finite, limited, sticks to its base; does not exceed a narrow, pre-set range.

Esoterically, Mula is considered the center of Earth's galaxy, the celestial"root" of our greater galactic civilization ( of which Earthly civilization is only one component)

Traditionally it is forbidden to make loans during the Moon's transit through Mula Nakshatra . The repayment of such loans would be difficult-to-impossible, as they are cursed by Mula's energy of bound-ness or movement without progress .

Detachment from Ketu + Expansion from Guru

Reckless yet religious

self-destructive yet self-regenerating

Mula = self-destructive, but not deadly . The Mula native seemingly destroys oneself"down to the root" -- but no farther.

The root itself is not destroyed. Vitality sustains.

In fact, the root almost always regenerates.

The subject matter of Mula's secretly self-destructive agenda will be found in the karaka portfolio of the affected graha, the bhava containing the Mula graha, and incoming drishti to the bhava.

As always, Chandra is most intensely characterized by the qualities of His Nakshatra . Chandra in Mula : yields more vividly self-destructive results than any other graha in Mula.

Mula behavior is characteristically negligent and oblivious to precaution. Yet, the Alaxmi native generally will not die from even the most catastrophic Mula-typical accident. Indeed, despite a lifetime which may look to outsiders like a chain of concatenated over-reachings and missteps, the optimistic Mula eventually recovers their vitality after each incident. Although not much the wiser for experience, they tend to be long-lived.

Sex and drug addictions

Mula = related to alcoholism and sex or drug addictions. Yet the addictions will not kill the native .

Addictive cycles begin with sudden and destructive power. Just as suddenly, the addiction is finished. In recovery, one may fill a priestly role in service to the addicted.

"Reckless disregard for consequences ".

The Mula-Soma native may engage in unsupportable or"senseless " risk.

Mula can also be cruel, due to the reckless detachment under rules of no-boundaries Ketu, which can blunt or even eradicate humane empathy.

Chandra in Mula is especially reckless with matters of emotional health and well-being.

"An accident waiting to happen."

Life seems to produce one"accident"after the next. Yet the native recovers from each and every crisis, no matter how apparently deadly.

After each recovery, the native begins a new cycle self-destructive choices which rather inevitably produce the next"accident".

Counseling the Mula Client

When counseling the Mula client, it is important to appreciate that the Mula nativerarely realizes that one is making systematically self-destructive choices .

Indeed, Mula's choices follow a reckless, apathetic, Ketu-driven pattern that is easy enough for an outsider to detect. However, the Mula native subjectively perceives oneself as an innocent victim of a series
of Amazing accidents.

Emotional distancing

Chandra in Ketu-ruled Nakshatra (Azvini, Magha, Kula) is generally characterized by an emotional distancing from others, even from one's own children.

Also Ketu imposes a certain blunting of the interpersonal awareness, so that one may be able to engage in intimate relationships only at the most primitive survival or sexual level.

Humble, religious nature

Naturally, Mula's fundamental disengagement from the world of"natural consequences " leads to a host of physical, social, emotional, and mental problems.

However, Mula influence is surprisingly good for the religious life. the native feels an ever deepening sense of"shock and awe"at the intensity of life's "random" events.

Mula is characteristically unable to comprehend the cause-and-effect ways in which one's own choices can attract the perfect conditions for a major life catastrophe. Based on a life narrative featuring crisis after crisis, the native may attribute great and glorious powers to a merciful God who seems to be wrathfully destructive -- and who yet offers salvation, time after time.

Although Mula does often demonstrate a lack of empathy (Ketu), one may have strongly spiritualized nature (Ketu) and provide surprisingly compassionate (Guru) support for others.

Mula natives suffer more than their fair share of accidents, indignities, and loss.

Yet Mula folk typically remain surprised and bewildered about the roots of their condition.

The chain of repeating misfortune is a mystery to them.

How this pattern could be anything else than a strange and magical series of random, terrible accidents?

Indeed there is no random accident. Yet it is the rare Mula native who can discern the Root of the problem!

The Galactic Sun

The image at left represents a stylized top-down view of the Earth's larger region, our "Milky Way" (white) galaxy. The galactic Sun is a bright star which resides at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The image shows the relative position of Earth's Sun (Savitra).

The swa(s)tika symbol, before it was demonically appropriated by the Nazi regime, served as a
many-millennia-old map of our home galaxy. (Draw an anti-clockwise Vedic swa (self, home, root) tika (map, marker) upon the photo to right and you
can see the old map.]

The "rose" flower, sacred and symbolic to many traditions, bears the map as well. So naturally does the lotus flower. The sacred Tibetan-pronunciation-Buddhist mantra Om Mani Peme Hung [om mani padme hum] = "hail to the jewel in the center of the lotus ".

Mula influence suggests that a part of one's divine consciousness still harkens back to a previous incarnation, not in Earth, but in the sacred-but-terrifying world of the Galactic Sun.

In between Earth incarnations (which are rather demanding although quite desirable for karmic purposes) our souls may take
intermediary incarnations (which is rather a misnomer because only in Earth do we get these famous "meat-bodies "!)

One of the potential locales for
a stop-over lifetime is the realm of the Galactic Sun.

This brilliant star is the center of our galaxy and it is a wonderful place in many ways. If one has the privilege to linger there, one becomes more god-like for the duration of one's stay.

The physical-body form is long-lived while in this realm; stupendously strong, alert and perceptive but not suspicious (suspiciousness is a component of the animal bodies we utilize here in Earth); and glamorously attractive as only the gods can be.

The consciousness here is much closer to the core of divine intelligence and Con-fidence runs very high. Of course, ego-membrane runs pretty high too, and there are social issues of competition for attention and dominance, proportional to godly life - on a large scale!

Returning to Earth, one has only the barest background memory, never fully conscious, of this previous incarnational experience. The lingering subconscious memories do however cause
polarizing catalysis for anyone with graha in Mula Nakshatra, particularly Chandra in any of the Mula pada (see Shil Ponde's description of the Mula quarters, above.)

The polarizing catalysis is worst when Chandra (Moon) occupies Mula, but a strong Sun in Mula will also show some effects. Essentially, the native takes crazy risks, believing that the risks have much less destructive potential than they really do have for humans.

Due to Mula memories overflow from the galactic center, one subconsciously believes one has the ability, the strength, the determination, or the intelligence to overcome the obstacles which others rightly fear -- or
survive the risk.

Mula measurements in all departments of life - but especially the emotional areas - tend to be unrealistic (Ketu). The Mula issues will depend on which graha and which domain.

The Mula mind tends toward overestimation of human capabilities, and the results are often catastrophic.

However Mula generally gives a happy attitude of bewilderment, rather than resentment or guilt.

Mula reasoning produces very sensible conclusions for a god or one with a god-like body and god-like access to divine rejuvenating powers.

But we puny humans are much more vulnerable to forces of Earth Nature and the backlash of human social punishment than we sometimes appreciate.

Mula memories signal to the native that one can"beat the system" through one's (super) natural endowment and the power of Faith.

Ketu-ruled Mula = Intuitive Faith in one's own centrality.

Unfortunately from an Earth-based perspective, the greater center of our loka is very difficult to see or even imagine. Modern science has not quite matured enough to confirm the vision of the rishi.

Mula people have a powerful sense of their core importance to the welfare of their group however the group often finds Mula's leadership style to be misinformed, incomplete, over-confident, lacking core strength or core viability.